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Everything which surrounds us may collectively be termed as the Environment. The air which we breathe, the soil on which we stand, water, living and non-living things around, the environment, has influenced and shaped our lives since time immemorial. It is from the environment that we get food to eat, water to drink, air to breathe and all necessities of day to day life. Environment around us constitutes a life support system. Through a process of natural selection and elimination it is the environment only which has caused the evolution of the biological spectrum, the biosphere, as it exists today. I. Basic Components of the Environment: Environment consists of all living and non-living things which surround us. Therefore, the basic components of the environment are: . !tmosphere or the air ". #ydrosphere or the water $. %ithosphere or the rocks and soil &. The living component of the environment or the biosphere II. Atmosphere or the Air: !tmosphere consists of a complex mixture of a number of gases, water vapour and a variety of fine particulate material. The gaseous mantle which surrounds the globe is constituted by about '. ' x (15 metric tons of gas which exerts a pressure of about kg per s).cm. on earth*s crust +,ytnick -.'/. 0ost of these gases are compressed in the lowermost layer. 1ressure decreases as we move upward. The composition of earth's atmosphere Gas Nitrogen Parts per million 780840.00 Relative percentage 78.08

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